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Je vous ai présenté il y a un moment la toute première Tele de MeloDuende : la Old Honey. Parce qu’on ne change pas une équipe qui gagne, vous allez voir dans la suite de l’article que les bourguignons nous ont réservé d’autres surprises toujours dotées d’un corps alu en forme de Tele, mais aussi en forme… de V ! Mais avant, petite piqûre de rappel sur la Old Honey en quelques images…

I am a big fan of Custom 77, so I could not miss this news. The brand just launched a series of strat models: the Sister Midnight. For the first guitars — because I suppose that there will be some others — we can see two simple but very stylish colors: black and white on the alder body, with a thin maple neck. The modernity is here with “pure” colors, but even so contrasting with a vintage head, painted on the top to remind the color of the body. Don’t forget the old pickguard of the White one, the 6 saddle bridge, confirming the retro effect. Finally, we can see 3 Alnico “Single77″ pickups that we have already seen on the Lust For Life CS3 (SSS 3 Tones). With a price of 365€, the Sister Midnight is an affordable guitar, and my little finger told me that this strat will make many envious persons!

Musician since he is 4, Romain Belliot tried few musical instruments before finding the one he really wanted to play: the bass guitar. In 2005, after some specialized studies and an experience in stringed-instrument company, he launched his own studio: Belliot Guitare. Located in Talange (Moselle, France), he repairs, customizes, and makes very beautiful guitars. You can discover two examples from his creations in the following post, with the Sniper and the Crescendo. From a big imagination and an excellent know-how, we can see that the wood is advanced here, bringing a raw and a massive aspect to these wonderful 6 strings. Other models can be discovered on his official website or in his Flickr gallery.

I often take a look to DeviantArt, it is a place where we can discover a lot of great artists. Some of them touch us more or less, and WillemXSM is an illustrator from Nederland who held all my attention. His hobby is recent because everything started in 2007, and he learned by himself focusing tattoos. His studied in Communication and Multimedia do not have anything to do with this, but he succeeded in creating his own style, taking Old School trend, traditional, and keeping also the New School wave — colorful with a lot of contrasts. For the moment, there is no link with guitar, but Willem is guitarist himself. That helps him to draw guitars or basses without difficulties for his commissions. You can see that he goes into detail keeping for example the original frets number on the neck, and I do not even speak of the reliefs or the shadows! Like a lot of people, music give him his inspiration: “Music translates very well for tattoos since it’s universal and timeless, just like tattoos”. Here is a nice quotation which shows us that music is important for everybody. I invite you to take a look at his gallery, and eventually to contact him if you have a graphical project to realize.

A lot of self-taught guitarists choose online lessons, and that is what offers the site GuitarMasterClass. Founded in 2006 by the Swedish guitarist Kristofer Dahl, GMC have more than 2300 videos, in every style of music, for every player (beginner or advanced levels). I tried myself this method, and I have to say that these lessons are very efficients! Each lesson is classed under levels/styles and has several steps. First, we can see the demo video of the song/technique that we want to learn, and explanations come after, with few zooms on the hands or on the neck, slow parts, etc.